Kimberly C. Young

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Teaching Assistant at Tufts University

Reading is a crucial skill for everyday life and understanding how we learn to read could have a large impact on educational practice. Recent studies have examined the role of domain-general learning mechanisms in reading, such as paired associate learning (PAL) and statistical learning (SL). However, results on their relationship to reading have b...

Reading is a crucial skill and research on its acquisition has primarily focused on how children “crack the orthographic code” and whether the properties of one’s L1 influence how an L2 writing system is learned. The present study used artificial orthographies to investigate individual differences in learning new writing systems. Seventy-three adul...

In person-to-person communication, misunderstandings generally happen due to a lack of shared meaning. This shared meaning is established through various sources such as context, environment, nonverbal cues, or conversation history, just to name a few. These misunderstandings can be referential or affective in nature. Recent advances in technology...